Numbers 1 And 1A And Attached Rear Basement Area Railings, Front Terrace And Balustrade Numbers 2 To 23 And Attached Rear Basement Area Railings, Front Terrace And Balustrade

The terrace comprises numbers 1 and 1A, and 2 to 23 Cornwallis Crescent, Clifton, built between 1791 and 1827. It was likely designed by William Paty. The architecture is Late Georgian style, executed in limestone ashlar to the front, with a brick core and limestone dressings to the rear. The buildings are arranged as a concave terrace, articulated by giant pilasters supporting a modillion cornice and parapet, with a banded ground floor featuring incised voussoirs. Numbers 21 and 22, and number 1 step forward. The terrace has three storeys, an attic, and a basement. Windows are largely 6/9-pane sashes on the first floor, and 6/6-pane elsewhere, with various dormers. A projecting vaulted basement forms a full-width terrace with a rusticated front featuring large semicircular arches, and a balustrade. The first floor features tented balconies with wrought-iron pointed-arched railings and flat lattice stanchions, though these are missing from numbers 4 and 8.

The rear entrance elevation presents entrances with Ionic pilasters, entablatures, and cornices, semicircular-arched doorways with plate-glass fanlights, and six-panel doors with reeded bottom panels and corners cut from the raised upper ones. Number 23 has a single window to the front but a three-window return, and a two-storey porch with a modillion cornice, a semicircular-arched doorway with architrave, and a teardrop fanlight with a lantern. Number 1A has a two-storey, ashlar front and a rendered rear, with a three-storey end entrance block featuring pilasters with an incised Greek key, semicircular arched openings, and blocked windows.

Internally, the entrance halls feature a dogleg staircase with stick balusters, a banded wreathed rail, and a curtail. Front rooms are full-width, with reeded architraves to six-panel doors, panelled shutters, and panelled double doors between ground-floor rooms.

Subsidiary features include attached wrought-iron railings to the rear basement area, with urn finials. An attached ashlar wall and railings extends approximately 30 metres east and south from number 23, incorporating ashlar piers and wrought-iron gates. The terrace was originally planned as part of a longer development. A right of way was formed between the two sections during a period of construction delay caused by the developers' bankruptcy.